Debbie Reynolds has died, just a day after the death of her daughter, Carrie Fisher. Variety reports:
Debbie Reynolds, the Oscar-nominated singer-actress who was the mother of late actress Carrie Fisher, has died at Cedars-Sinai hospital. She was 84.
“She wanted to be with Carrie,†her son Todd Fisher told Variety.
She was taken to the hospital from Carrie Fisher’s Beverly Hills house Wednesday after suffering a stroke, the day after her daughter Carrie Fisher died.
The vivacious blonde, who had a close but sometimes tempestuous relationship with her daughter, was one of MGM’s principal stars of the 1950s and ’60s in such films as the 1952 classic “Singin’ in the Rain†and 1964’s “The Unsinkable Molly Brown,†for which she received an Oscar nomination as best actress.
The death of a child can be a terrible strain for a parent, I’m told.
Ms. Reynolds brought an enormous, youthful energy to all her roles. She was one of the younger representatives of the post-war cohort of studio contract players that included stars like Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Janet Leigh.
